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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 4634113" data-attributes="member: 22779">What sword and sorcery genre novels have you been reading where the protagonist requires extended bed rest after being injured?&nbsp; Can you give three examples?&nbsp; Sword and sorcery heroes are almost never incapacitated, other than perhaps being knocked out and captured, and certainly NEVER receive any wounds of lasting effect.Read A Princess of Mars.&nbsp; It happens pretty much fight after fight.&nbsp; Any time John Carter gets wounded, he gets back up, shakes it off and when the actions over, gets a band-aid from a green martian.&nbsp; Sure, you can call it magic if you want to.&nbsp; That's up to you.&nbsp; He does describe being expertly bandaged more than a few times.But, that's my point.&nbsp; People keep making claims that 4e hit point mechanics are incredibly bizarre, to the point of non-sensical.&nbsp; Yet, you can point to example after example after example where these mechanics fit pretty darn well with genre fiction.&nbsp; Whether it be action movies, novels, short stories, comic books, what have you.&nbsp; There is a list as long as my arm for examples which these mechanics model pretty well.Yet, that's apparently not good enough.&nbsp; The fact that you can point to literally hundreds of examples dating back almost a century in the genre of second wind and healing surge style naratives isn't apparently a good enough pedegree for these mechanics.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 4634113, member: 22779"] What sword and sorcery genre novels have you been reading where the protagonist requires extended bed rest after being injured? Can you give three examples? Sword and sorcery heroes are almost never incapacitated, other than perhaps being knocked out and captured, and certainly NEVER receive any wounds of lasting effect. Read A Princess of Mars. It happens pretty much fight after fight. Any time John Carter gets wounded, he gets back up, shakes it off and when the actions over, gets a band-aid from a green martian. Sure, you can call it magic if you want to. That's up to you. He does describe being expertly bandaged more than a few times. But, that's my point. People keep making claims that 4e hit point mechanics are incredibly bizarre, to the point of non-sensical. Yet, you can point to example after example after example where these mechanics fit pretty darn well with genre fiction. Whether it be action movies, novels, short stories, comic books, what have you. There is a list as long as my arm for examples which these mechanics model pretty well. Yet, that's apparently not good enough. The fact that you can point to literally hundreds of examples dating back almost a century in the genre of second wind and healing surge style naratives isn't apparently a good enough pedegree for these mechanics. [/QUOTE]

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